While fun to read, Daniels' DC book is more coffee table book
than useful reference. Produced in close cooperation with DC, the book
is almost universally celebratory in tone. It is loosely organized into
seven chronological chapters that somewhat arbitrarily divide up the sixty
years of DC's history. Every topic is confined to a two-page spread; perhaps
because of this, the book fails to provide a coherent narrative of the
history of the company. Because of the cultural penetration of the DC characters,
Daniels devotes substantial space to discussion of film, television and
licensed products, sometimes at the expense of more detailed discussion
of comics. Though the book contains many reproductions of pages and panels,
the only actual comics are brief reprints of the origins of Superman and
Batman that appear as the endpapers.